The Making of Contemporary Turkey

Course content

This course will analyse and discuss the economic, political and social history of contemporary Turkey. It begins with the establishment of the mono-party regime during which the state and society was reshaped along with Kemalist principles. It then traces the dissolution of this regime and focuses on the multi-dimensional transformation of Turkey in the aftermath of the World War II. The course continues with the developments shaped by in-migration, industrialization, political pluralism and military interventions in between 1950-1980. It finally deals with identity crisis emerged in the circumstances shaped by the September 12, 1980 coup d’etat and accommodation to neo-liberalism.